APC sweeps Yobe LG polls

The All Progressive Congress (APC) has won all the 17 chairmanship seats in the Local Government Elections in Yobe state conducted last Saturday.

The party also won the 178 councilors’ seats conceding non to any political party.

Potiskum Local Government witnessed the highest turn-out with 122, 824 while Tarmuwa, Machina, and Bursari witnessed the lowest turn-out of voters with less than 40,000 voters according to the results released by the state independent electoral commission.

Declaring the results of the election, chairman of the Yobe State Independent Electoral Commission (YBSIEC) Mohammed Jauro Abdu announced that all the candidates of the APC for the position of the chairman of the 17 local government areas in the state had the highest number of votes and returned elected.

The YBSIEC chairman also revealed that out of the 1.2 million registered voters in the state, 999, 700 voted representing about 78.99% of the total votes.

He praised the media, security agents, electoral officials, observers and Non-Governmental Organizations for their various roles towards the smooth conduct of the election.

The YSIEC boss debunked claims that the state is unsafe to hold any election.

“For those who think that Yobe is Afghanistan or Somali or Sudan, you have come and seen. Our elections went on smoothly without any case of violence or breach of peace. This is a pointer and a signal for the government at the center that the state is safe to hold election even in 2015 Isha Allah”.

The Nation recalls that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) won one councilor seat in Gujba Local in the last LG election in 2009.

It was gathered that the elected chairmen would be sworn-in on Monday in Damaturu the state capital.